The Face of A Settler & Colonial State

 SHOULD PEOPLE BOYCOTT ISRAEL?

Omar Barghouti explains the aims of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement

Omar Barghouti (born 1964) is a founding committee member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). He was born in Qatar, grew up in Egypt and later moved to Ramallah (West Bank) as an adult.

The interviews covered a vast area of issues related to Palestine and the settler and colonial state of Israel.

In Part 2 he talked about the face of A Settler & Colonial State:
In Part 3 he talked on Hamas-Fatah Split
In Part 4 - IS SOME CRITIQUE OF ISRAEL ANTISEMITIC?
In Part 5 - talk about RISE OF PALESTINIAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
(Does not necessarily reflect blogger's view or position)

Fresh violence erupts in Kashmir

Indian policemen block a road with a roll of barbed wire in 

Srinagar on August 30, 2010.

Violent clashes between government security forces and demonstrators continue unabated in the Indian-controlled Kashmir. 

Several people have been wounded on Monday after police opened fire to disperse the protesters in the capital city of Srinagar, AFP reported. 

One of the wounded is said to be in a critical condition. The man is said to be the cousin of the key separatist leader Yasin Malik. 

According to police sources, the incident occurred when a group of protesters hurled stones at police and shouted anti-India slogans. 

Residents and eyewitnesses say there was no provocation for the shooting.

Asiya Andrabi: Warrior in Veil - Arrested

Asiya Andrabi, the chief of South Asia's single militant organisation of women, has been evading arrest for sometime. Her organisation Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Ummah) has been assisting Lashkar-e-Jabbar in imposing purdah on Kashmiri.women. She is wanted under Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) for allegedly taking money from ISI. Andrabi, daughter of a physician, is a science graduate. A fierce militant, before marriage she had expressed her desire to her father to marry only a mujahid.

She went into hiding after the arrest of Imtiyaz Bazaz, the editor of the Mountain Valley. It is alleged that Bazaz had approached Ayub Thakur, the London-based president of World Kashmir Freedom Movement at her behest for funds for insurgents in Kashmir.

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Taliban stop Women from studying, one "powerful" nation stop any able bodies from studying.

Gaza game exposes siege restrictions:

AlJazeeraEnglish | August 27, 2010

Israel announced weeks ago that it would ease its siege on Gaza, but students who want to travel to the West Bank to study are still banned - as they have been for 10 years.

To publicise the problem, the Israeli human rights group Gisha has created an online game that demonstrates just how difficult it is to leave the Gaza strip.

Al Jazeera's Nicole Johnston reports.

The longest conflicts in history.

 Wars - 52min Documentary

From navigating roadside bombs, sleeping through the constant rumble of gunfire, to getting your legs blown off on your way to work, this fascinating documentary focuses on three men for whom war is a part of everyday life. From Somalia, to Palestine, to Afghanistan, they're living through the longest conflicts in history.

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View from a Grain of Sand .

Told through the eyes of three women, this films covers recent Afghan history from the point of view of those who suffered most.

The series of unwelcome foreign occupations and the pouring of foreign arms into Afghanistan had denied Afghan - more so women and children - a space for a peaceful existence and an opportunity for and orderly and meaningful life.

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